Cut Copy at Oval Space, E2

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Cut Copy’s glittery tales of love, lust and largin’ it explore the territory between pop, rock and dance music — a bit like a New Order for the Dalston generation or Hot Chip without the Oxbridge education. The Melbourne quartet have — or at least pretend to have — an innocence that’s rather out of sync with these cynical times; their song titles read like an Ibiza compilation from 1991 — Feel the Love, Free Your Mind, Take Me Higher
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The band’s most recent album, Free Your Mind
, was unashamedly influenced by the saucer-eyed optimism of acid house and at times this show resembled